November, 2014

Qualcomms
5G vision

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Mobile is the largest technology platform in history

~7 billion connections,
almost as many as
people on earth1

Evolving into Internet of

Everything: cars, meters,
sensors, health devices, etc.

~7B connections (~3.5B subs) GSMA Intelligence, Apr. 14.

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More prevalent than

electricity or running
water in some regions

At the center of
breakthrough experiences
like 4K UHD video

Mobile has made a leap every ~10 years

1G
Analog
voice
AMPS, NMT, TACS

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2G

3G

Digital voice

Mobile broadband

D-AMPS, GSM,
IS-95 (CDMA)

WCDMA/HSPA+,
CDMA2000/EV-DO

4G

Faster and
better MBB
LTE,
LTE Advanced

Mobile surpassed fixed-line, then PC

Human communication

Era of mobile phones

Primary communication device

Era of Smartphones

Center of new experiences and services

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Smartphone installed base surpassed PC (desktops, notebooks, premium ultramobiles) in 2013 (Gartner, Mar. 14), Fixed connections per ITU, mobile per GSMA. MBB per GSMA, Jul. 14; Fixed connections: BB per WBIS, Oct. 14

5G to meet needs beyond todays trends

Mainly addressed by 3G/4G/Wi-Fi and its evolution

More video
Richer content
like 4K Video

More devices
Smartphones

2/3

of mobile traffic will be

video by 20173

Cumulative smartphone shipments

forecast between 2014-20181

Gartner Mar14 2Machina Research/GSMA, Dec. 12. 3Cisco, Feb. 13

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8B

More things

More data

Connected

Small cells

25B

Interconnected device
forecast in 20202

1,000x
from ~2010 to
the 2020ies

Can we predict the world in 2025?

To maximize the opportunity, we need a user-centric approacharound human, thing, machine

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Communication

Also to control and discover

Best effort data

Also ultra reliable and aware services

Device as end-points

Also new ways of connecting everything

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new services

new industries and devices

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Empowering

new user experiences

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Scalability and
adaptability
To connect everything, across an
extreme variation of types of
services and use cases

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User-centric
design
To scale for billions of connected things,
provide new ways of connecting, and to
improve cost and energy efficiency

Unified
platform
Unifying platform for all spectrum, new
deployment/business models, and a wide
range of new services for the next decade

In parallel: driving 4G and 5G to their fullest potential

5G
LTE

LTE Advanced

4G
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Fully leverage 4G investments

Improve cost and energy efficiency
Enable a wide range of new services
A unified, much more capable platform

connect everything

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Support current and emerging services

Sensing whats around,
autonomous vehicles

Smart homes/
buildings/cities

New form factors,

wearables, and sensors

Extreme mobile
broadband
indoor/outdoor

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Health care and emergency

response services

Critical infrastructure,
protection, and control

Remote control,
process automation

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Support current and emerging services

Massive number
of things
Connect everything

Smart homes/
buildings/cities

Mobile
broadband
Enhancing the
foundation

New form factors,

wearables and sensors

Proximal and
aware services

Sensing whats around,

autonomous vehicles

New ways of interacting

Health services and

emergency response

Critical infrastructure,
protection and control

Missioncritical services
Failure is not
an option

Extreme mobile
broadband
indoor/outdoor

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Remote control,
process automation

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Support extreme variation in requirements

Ultra-high reliability
Ultra-low energy
High security
Ultra-low cost

Massive Number
of Things

Mission
Critical Services
Flawless mobility

Deep coverage

Enhanced
Mobile
Broadband
Extreme broadband
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Ultra-low latency
Deep awareness
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user-centric

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User-centric
Bring connectivity, computing and content close user

Computing

Connectivity

Content/data
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User-centric connectivity
Device is not just an end-pointintegral part of the network

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User-centric connectivity
Achieving truly edgeless connectivity with 5G
Multi-hop to
extend coverage

Device-to-device discovery
and communications

Integrated access and

backhaul, relays

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User-centric computingon devices, things

Continuing todays trend, and more cognitive technologies
Reasoning
such as learn and adapt

Expanded human abilities

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Perception

Actions

such as see and hear

such as act intuitively

Contextual personalization

Human-like interactions
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And multiple enablers for uniform user experiences

and more capacity
Context and service
awareness

Full SelfConfiguration

Backhaul

Coordinated Spatial Techniques

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Advanced
Receivers

Truly unplanned
deployments

Hyper dense
deployments

Interference
Coordination

Beam
forming

Massive Spatial
Processing
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A unified connectivity
platform for the next decade
and beyond

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Unified 5G design across spectrum types and bands

Licensed Spectrum

Shared Licensed Spectrum

Unlicensed Spectrum

Cleared spectrum

Complementary licensing

Multiple technologies

EXCLUSIVE USE

SHARED EXCLUSIVE USE

SHARED USE

Below 1 GHz: longer range, massive number of things

Below 6 GHz: mobile broadband, mission critical
Above 6 GHz including mmWave: for both access and backhaul, shorter range

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User-centric, flexible and scalable network

Virtualized network functions

WI-FI

Dynamically distributed based on mobility

Modular core network

Multi access to a
single core network

4G
RAN

And simultaneous connectivity

5G
ACCESS

Scale from wide area deployments to hotspot nodes

Distributed
Architecture

Flexible business models

Reduced overall cost, reduced

backhaul and lower energy

Deployment, subscription, charging

Lower latency
Such as control and user plane closer to edge

Edge security
Design for less-trusted nodes
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Simultaneous connectivity to leverage 4G investments

Macro

Small cell

5G/4G/3G/Wi-Fi
multimode device
5G Carrier
Aggregation1

5G above 6Ghz
5G below 6GHz

5G below 6GHz

4G and Wi-Fi

4G
Simultaneous connectivity
across 5G, 4G and Wi-Fi
5G coverage

4G coverage
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1Thanks

to integrated MAC across sub 6 GHz and above 6 GHz

Scalable from wide area to local area deployments

Wide area network

Local area network

Operators
MVNOs

Enterprises

Consumers

Network sharing & hosting

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Hotspot/residential

A unified platform for expanded connectivity needs

for the next decade and beyond
New services &
devices

Unknown new service

Mission-critical services
Proximal/aware services
Massive # of things
Mobile broadband

New services,
unify all spectrum
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New business
models

Wide to local
area deployments

Scalability across
broader dimensions

Thanks to a
user-centric,
distributed design

Cost and power

efficiency
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Meeting new connectivity needs for the next decade

Uniform fiber-like
mobile broadband
with deep awareness

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New services like

mission critical
remote surgery

Connecting everything
from simple sensors
to complex robots

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5G: not just a new generation, but a new kind of network

Connectivity

Computing

Enabling
new services

Content/data

Connecting
new industries and devices

Empowering
new user experiences

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